Climate Change Weekly # 586— Wind Trash Is a Problem on and Offshore
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Wind Waste Is a Problem on and Offshore
Pollution Decline Driving Recent Heat Waves
Climate Change Real Estate Scam Costing Homeowners, Study Reports
International Building Code Standards Causing Higher Housing Prices
Wind Waste Is a Problem on and Offshore
Waste, a problem endemic to industrial wind and solar facilities, is piling up or being scattered all over. In this essay I will leave aside discussions of the waste created in the mining, refining, manufacturing, and construction processes in the production and erection of wind and solar facilities.
Limiting this discussion to wind facilities, in previous Climate Change Weekly posts I described the problem of leading-edge wear of turbines, resulting from high winds, rain, hail, and other weather phenomena that erode the turbine blades and cause them to deposit tons of tiny bits of plastic/resin/polymer waste on the land surrounding land-based facilities in Scotland and Sweden. Leading-edge wear is even worse for offshore wind facilities, polluting the sea and the food chain.
Trash from wind is even more obvious and damaging when the turbines explode or collapse, which is not uncommon, as numerous videos demonstrate.
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